A Portrait Is A Picture In Which

Cultivate An Ever Continuous Power Of Observation. Wherever You Are, Be Always Ready To Make Slight Notes Of Postures, Groups And Incidents. Store Up In The Mind... A Continuous Stream Of Observations From Which To Make Selections Later. Above All Things Get Abroad, See The Sunlight And Everything That Is To Be Seen.

It Is Certain That At Certain Times Talent Entirely Overcomes Thought Or Poetry.

If You Begin With The Middle-tone And Work Up From It Toward The Darks So That You Deal Last With Your Highest Lights And Darkest Darks, You Avoid False Accents.

I Don't Dig Beneath The Surface For Things That Don't Appear Before My Own Eyes.

A Portrait Is A Painting With Something Wrong With The Mouth.